Admin Announcement: Full server, what now?

[Kazinsal]

Why would anything need to be changed?

It seems the server is getting along fine with only 200 slots, so whats the need to raise the number or do anything else to it?

Imo, dont fix what isnt broken.

I'd say the fact I can't get on for over an hour in mid-day here is a bit of a problem. If the RM comes into New York, the lack of a fully armed bomber (read: me:D) may be the thin line between win and lose.

* First (and more real) one is an idea of 2 parallel Sirius universes (servers) but the database of both servers is synchronized. This means after player logs out from one server, all changes are transferred to the other server. Both servers are RP servers and players/factions can choose between them knowing that both servers have the last 'version' of their characters. The problem might come when 1 character is used on both servers at the same time (shared chars for example) - most probably the latest updated character will be used to be sent to the other server so some changes might be lost.

I like this idea, but there may be problems with open world PvP when all of one faction's navy is online on server A and the defending faction is all on server B. Server A will win and/or have nothing to shoot at and B won't know the difference.

And we all love our PvP!

* Second idea will definitely need much more flhook programming, time and also testing before it can go live. It counts with 2 servers (later maybe more) but only one Sirius universe, each of the servers 'serving' only 1/2 of the systems. During a jump player is (if needed) automatically re-logged to the other server. Jumping, messaging, transferring cash between the servers and other stuff is handled via an flhook link. But some things will most probably be impossible to implement (like groups - they will have to be re-joined after a jump to another server's system). More issues will definitely be known later. This way looks perfect, but don't expect it to come sooner than in the end of this year most probably even next year. It's also possible that we run into problems that we're not able to solve at all.

:blink:Ew, no. Too many problems for an RPPvP server. Then again, it depends on the structure of FLHook and the language it's coded in (I can help with C/++ if someone tells me how FLHook works!)

My vote: write a new FLserve that can work with multiple cores!:lol:

Oh, and real nice of the server to crap itself while I'm shooting up some rogues...:rolleyes:

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